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The Midnight Factory

A few extracts from the Midnight Factory appear below, along with accompaying impressions of the scenes that they describe, by way of a sneak preview to the novel.

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Grand stone building labeled The Bureau with a large red flag and statues on either side, in a dystopian city setting.

Chapter 8

"...writhing bodies in purgatorial torment supported people standing above. She was among them—the wretched—and her father tormented her from above."

"An ancient-looking man hovered in the spectral illumination on a platform. One knotted, arthritic hand hung by his side; the other grasped what resembled a shepherd’s crook."

Chapter 10

Elderly bearded man in simple robe holding a curved wooden staff, standing barefoot in a dark hall with a bright light above his head.
Two determined young figures hold a flag featuring a globe and symbolic arrows during a nighttime protest, with fires and smoke rising in the background.

Chapter 15

" 'None of us know how this will end. But all of us know that it will end. The only certainty in life is that it is better to live in hope than in despair, love rather than hate, and unity as opposed to division. There is more good in us than bad, of this I am certain. And when we meet the end, whatever that may be, may we hold our heads high and say that it was a life worth living for all of Earth’s creatures.' ~ Maggie Sullivan ~"

"The Reykjavík peninsula was carved into a moonscape by millennia of volcanic activity. It was covered in snow and ice as the plane landed under the verdant heavens."

Chapter 20

Small airplane flying over snowy coastline at night with bright green northern lights in the sky.
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